ARCA RBA
1879 - 1915
Canadian
Washerwomen on the Loing / Washing Clothes
oil on canvas
signed and on verso inscribed "59" and variously and stamped with the Artist’s Estate stamp and Studio Helen G. McNicoll RBA ARCA, catalogue #46 indistinctly
29 x 34 1/2 in, 73.7 x 87.6 cm
Estimate: $250,000 - $350,000 CAD
Sold for: $301,250
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PROVENANCE
Emilie McNicoll
By descent to Dollie and May McNicoll
Morris Gallery, Toronto, 1976
Ross Woodman
Masters Gallery Ltd., Calgary
Lillian Mayland McKimm Collection, Calgary then Vancouver Island
LITERATURE
Postcard from Miss Helen McNicoll (Moret-sur-Loing) to Master Charles McNicoll, 27 Reginald St., Derby, England, July 31, 1908, A Collection of the McNicoll Family's Postcards, catalogue #1
Twenty-fifth Spring Exhibition, Art Association of Montreal, 1909, listed page 19
“The Art Gallery,” Montreal Daily Star, March 17, 1909, listed page 14
“Spring Art Exhibition,” Gazette (Montreal), March 24, 1909, listed page 9
“A Glimpse at the Pictures for the Spring Exhibition,” Montreal Daily Star, March 27, 1909, listed page 8
EXHIBITED
Art Association of Montreal, Twenty-fifth Spring Exhibition, April 2 – 24, 1909, catalogue #240
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Ottawa, Thirtieth Annual Exhibition, May 6 – 21, 1909, catalogue #92a
Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Department of Fine Arts, August 30 – September 13, 1909, catalogue #140
Art Association of Montreal, Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by the Late Helen McNicoll, RBA, ARCA, November 7 – December 6, 1925, catalogue #46
Morris Gallery, Toronto, Helen McNicoll Oil Paintings from the Estate, Part Two, February 7 – 21, 1976, catalogue #3
Literature continued
“Twenty-fifth Spring Art Exhibition at Art Gallery,” Montreal Daily Star, April 9, 1909, listed page 6
“Pictures That Are Being Talked About,” Montreal Daily Witness, April 15, 1909, listed page 3
Thirtieth Annual Exhibition, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 1909, listed page 15
“National Art Exhibition,” Evening Citizen (Ottawa), May 11, 1909, listed page 5
“More Examples of Canadian Art,” Evening Journal (Ottawa), May 19, 1909, listed page 6
Catalogue of Department of Fine Arts, Canadian National Exhibition, 1909, listed page 23, reproduced
“Canadian Art at the Exhibition,” Toronto Daily Star, September 7, 1909, listed page 9
Memorial Exhibition of Paintings by the Late Helen McNicoll, RBA, ARCA, Art Association of Montreal, 1925, titled as Washerwomen on the Loing, listed page 5
“Memorial Show of Work by Canadian: Sunlight Is Dominant Note in Paintings by Late Helen G. McNicoll, A.R.C.A.,” Gazette (Montreal), November 10, 1925, listed page 5
Helen McNicoll Oil Paintings from the Estate, Part Two, Morris Gallery, 1976, titled as Washing Clothes, listed and reproduced, unpaginated
Morris Gallery, Toronto, McNicoll Inventory, 1976, catalogue #59
James Purdie, “At the Galleries: McNicoll, Eastman,” Globe and Mail, February 21, 1976, listed and reproduced page 22
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For the biography on Lillian Mayland McKimm in PDF format, please click here.
Estimate: $250,000 - $350,000 CAD
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